On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Cleo file transfer products have a remote code exec, here we go again!
• Snowflake phases out password-based auth
• Chinese Sophos-exploit-dev company gets sanctioned
• Romania’s election gets rolled back after Tiktok changed the outcome
• AMD’s encrypted VM tech bamboozled by RAM with one extra address bit
• And much, much more…

This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst, who love sneaky canary token traps. Jacob Torrey previews an upcoming Blackhat talk filled with interesting operating system tricks you can use to trigger canaries in your environment. You wont believe the third trick! Attackers hate him!

Show notes:

Cleo Software Actively Being Exploited in the Wild CVE-2024-50623 | Huntress https://www.huntress.com/blog/threat-advisory-oh-no-cleo-cleo-software-actively-being-exploited-in-the-wild

Blue Yonder investigating data leak claim following ransomware attack | Cybersecurity Dive https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/blue-yonder-data-leak-ransomware/734987/

Snowflake to phase out single-factor authentication by late 2025 | Cybersecurity Dive https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/snowflake-authentication-policy-change/735099/

Treasury Sanctions Cybersecurity Company Involved in Compromise of Firewall Products and Attempted Ransomware Attacks | U.S. Department of the Treasury https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2742

Another teenage hacker charged as feds continue Scattered Spider crackdown | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/another-hacker-scattered-spider-charged

Germany arrests suspected admin of country’s largest criminal marketplace | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/germany-crimenetwork-arrest

FCC, for first time, proposes cybersecurity rules tied to wiretapping law | CyberScoop https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-cybersecurity-rules-wiretapping-law-salt-typhoon/

DOC-408013A1.pdf https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-408013A1.pdf

Russian state hackers abuse Cloudflare services to spy on Ukrainian targets | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/russian-state-hackers-abuse-cloudflare-tunnels-spy-on-ukraine

Cloudflare’s pages.dev and workers.dev Domains Increasingly Abused for https://www.fortra.com/blog/cloudflare-pages-workers-domains-increasingly-abused-for-phishing

ByteDance, TikTok ask appeals court to temporarily block sell-or-ban law https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/bytedance-tiktok-ask-appeals-court-145154927.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADEoP-QEKybC2IMRBT0S1i5d5OWKip7pkw7UmoH7uGhfXj1d5AFK5hZrz3Ul2V_zZGfkNw_W849wV-lnVnHohjtmKuz6vlbOrdn6l9fo46PJfqZ0Et0k6WX-XP20KAv3RCZD1hxudSInWCpB6FDjRAqXnSyyhs6Sn7mgwCLIttoA

Romania annuls presidential election over alleged Russian interference | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/romania-annuls-presidential-election-over-interference

EU demands TikTok ‘freeze and preserve data’ over alleged Russian interference in Romanian elections | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/romania-elections-eu-tiktok-freeze-data-russia-interference

Research Note: Meta’s Role in Romania’s 2024 Presidential Election - CheckFirst https://checkfirst.network/research-note-metas-role-in-romanias-2024-presidential-election/

Key electricity distributor in Romania warns of ‘cyber attack in progress’ | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/electric-distributor-cyberattack-romania

Backdoor slipped into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/backdoor-slips-into-popular-code-library-drains-155k-from-digital-wallets/

AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/new-badram-attack-neuters-security-assurances-in-amd-epyc-processors/

New dog, old tricks: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly thru SD card reader – PT SWARM https://swarm.ptsecurity.com/new-dog-old-tricks-damagecard-attack-targets-memory-directly-thru-sd-card-reader/

Telegram partners with child safety group to scan content for sexual abuse material https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/telegram-partners-child-safety-group-scan-content-sexual-abuse-materia-rcna182596

Apple hit with $1.2B lawsuit after killing controversial CSAM-detecting tool - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/thousands-of-child-sex-abuse-victims-sue-apple-for-lax-csam-reporting/

Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain via Truncated SHA-256 Collision and Command Injection - Flatt Security Research https://flatt.tech/research/posts/compromising-openwrt-supply-chain-sha256-collision/

How do I turn on the Do Not Track feature? | Firefox Help https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature